With Congress yet to announce its Lok Sabha candidate for Vadodara, a social media post from the Vadodara party unit general secretary Amit Ghotikar has become a talking point.
Kundanben Kothiya, the corporator from ward no. 4 of the Surat Municipal Corporation, became the sixth AAP corporator from Surat to join the ruling fold over the last two weeks.
Surat: Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) 26 councillors and their two candidates for Nagar Prathmik Shikshan Samiti (NPSS) polls were arrested on Monday in connection with the ruckus during the polls on June 25. One councillor Rajesh Moradiya, who was ill, was not arrested.
Later in the evening, they were produced before a judicial magistrate and released on bail. AAP leaders alleged that their councillors were deliberately arrested so that they could not participate in the general board meeting.
While three councillors were detained in the morning, several others were taken into custody before they could enter the Surat Municipal Corporation’s (SMC) headquarters. A few councillors who had managed to slip inside the building and had hid themselves were also arrested before they could enter the meeting hall. Two other councillors were detained from inside the meeting hall.